Home Landscaping: California is the fifth title in Creative Homeowner's amazingly successful Regional Home Landscaping series. In this book, readers will find ideas for making a California home landscape more attractive and functional. Created by landscape professionals in California, the book's 23 designs incorporate about 200 of the best plants for the specific region. Readers will find all they need to know about installing and caring for the plants, paths, fences, walls, and arbors that make up the designs. Like the other titles in the series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. Clearly written in a friendly style, it provides all readers need to know to landscape like a pro. "There is nothing like it! This idea-filled book takes the guesswork out of landscaping so you can focus on the fun. Designs that work, great plants you can find, accurate instructions, and detailed drawings will help you succeed." Nancy Beubaire, editor, Organic Gardening -- Review - Approximately 400 full-color photos and illustrations - Designs covering 23 of the most common situations, such as front entries, foundation plantings, patios, and steep slopes. - Detailed descriptions of more than 200 plants that will grow well in your region, plus all you need to know to select, plant, and care for them. - Step-by-step instructions for building structures, such as paths, patios, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellises. Roger Holmes is the founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine. He co-edited the monumental Taylor''s Master Guide to Gardening and other highly regarded gardening books, and produced the landscaping series of which this book is part. He also co-wrote Creative Homeowner''s Creating Good Gardens. Lance Walheim lives in California and has authored or contributed to more than 30 gardening books, including Lawns for Dummies, Roses for Dummies, The Natural Rose Gardener, and Citrus . He has also been a staff editor at Sunset magazine. Home & Garden Landscaping